Thursday, August 10, 2017

Wasserman Schultz says she defended Awan to the end because he's Muslim and wanted to protect him from Islamophobia. IT guy Awan had password to her iPad, which may be why she refused FBI access to DNC server. The former DNC chair kept Awan on payroll even after his DC computer network access was cut off and knowing he'd transferred sensitive congressional data to unauthorized storage-Sperry, NY Post

And the news about her staffer
trying to flee to Pakistan to avoid data-fraud charges is only the
latest proof.

Computer security at the DNC was so lax on Wasserman Schultz’s watch that hackers burrowed deep into the network,
leading to a massive data breach. They were thwarted, in contrast, when
they tried to infiltrate Schultz’s Republican counterparts.

Now we discover that Wasserman Schultz couldn’t really give a rip about cyber-security in Congress, either.

After
the Capitol Police this year began investigating her trusted staffer,
Imran Awan, for theft of congressional data and procurement fraud,Politico reported, every Democrat who had contracted with him eventually
fired him. Everyone, that is, except Wasserman Schultz.

In an interview with
her local paper, Wasserman Schultz revealed she kept Awan around to do
other IT work even after authorities suspended his access to the Capitol
computer network. Worse, she said she continued to employ him to work on printers, Web
sites and software despite learning he transferred sensitive
congressional data outside the secure network to an unauthorized offsite
storage location.

Police told her Awan was “transferring data outside the secure
network, which I think amounted to use of apps that the House didn’t
find compliant with our security requirements,” Wasserman Schultz
shrugged, insisting she “did the right thing” keeping him on payroll. “I
would do it again.”

Awan is reported to have smashed hard drives before agents raided his
home. If he copied valuable data to off-site servers, it would set off
bigger alarms. Such information could be used to blackmail members of
Congress — namely Wasserman Schultz, who has gone to unusual lengths to
protect her rogue IT guy.

She admitted she knew Awan was planning to travel to Pakistan, but
that he had discussed return dates with her chief of staff. And when
investigators seized a laptop from her office, one she says belonged to
Awan, she went into high dudgeon, chewing out the Capitol Police chief
in May when he refused to return it and even threatening him with
“consequences.”